Tag: architecture

  • Stateful Acres Home for the Chronically Unique

    Stateful Acres Home for the Chronically Unique

    A No-Kill Shelter, Petting Zoo, and U-Fish Trout Pond Disclaimer: I am not a real sysadmin, but I do talk to many of them, and this humorous presentation is meant to highlight the problems of Going To The Cloud as experienced by legacy institutions.   The setting Stateful Acres is a legacy institution. You know…

  • New job title: Developer Advocate

    New job title: Developer Advocate

    I’ve had a lot of job titles in my career: Technical Writing Intern Queen of Documentation (It was 2000, OK?) Technical Writer I, II, III Technical Communicator Senior Technical Writer Technical Writing Consultant Documentation Architect Documentation Mercenary You might notice a theme there. I’ve been a technical writer for a lot of different companies, because…

  • What is a documentation architect?

    What is a documentation architect?

    When I was at Write the Docs 2015, several people asked me about the title I have in my LinkedIn heading: Documentation Architect. What did I mean by that? How is it different than content management or development architecture? What a documentation architect isn’t A documentation architect isn’t psychic. They can’t figure out your business…